Learning to Read

Phonemic Awareness and Phonics
ABC's and 123's-this site has activities for letter recognition.
A.B.Cow - students enter the missing letter from the alphabet.
ABC Mommy and Me - an alphabet recognition program that displays the letter in uppercase and lowercase and if the student clicks on the letter it will say the letter.
Alfy's Thematic Units-a variety of activities to help with phonics and reading.
Alphabet Action - displays the letters of the alphabet and students can click on a letter and see it, hear it, and see a word that begins with the selected letter.
Alphabits for Kids- provides 6 alphabet activities for students including matching letter, letter comes before, letter comes after, matching upper and lower case letters and more.
Building Language for Literacy-student find matching letters and rhyming word at this site.
Chicken Stacker- students must select the word with the correct vowel sound.
Dolch Word Lists - provides 11 lists with the words and activities to have students participate in.
Early Childhood Learning Education Network - provides activities for primary students about colors, numbers, letters, shapes, words, and more. The activities are outstanding and do not require the students to read information.
The Hungry Thing - a phonetic awareness activity that asks students to match pictures that rhyme.
Language Arts Activities - provides interactive activities for colors, numbers alphabet, spelling and more.
Learning Planet - provides interactive numbers, counting, and the alphabet.
Learning to Read - a variety of games, movies, books to help children learn to read.
Literacy Center-This site has lots of beginning literacy activities.
Little Explorer's Picture Dictionary  - a dictionary for younger students.
Name Talk: Exploring Letter-sound Knowledge in a Primary Classroom (K-2)-students explore their knowledge of letter sounds then use a stapleless book tool on the Internet.
PBS Between the Lions- provides songs, stories, and activities.  Click on Games to see numerous engaging activities for practicing reading literacy skills.
Sadlier Oxford Phonics Activities - a great wealth of phonics activities for grades K-6.
Scholastics Phonics and Decoding Resources-a list of resources provided by Scholastic.
Seuss University - provides reading activities for online and to print out and play.
Sight Words - provides cards that can be printed and activities for grades 1-4.
Vowel Take Home Cards - provides cards of various vowel sounds to help students practice their vowel patterns to print out, use at school or take home to practice.
Words and Pictures-A site with different activities to help with developing readers.

Vocabulary
A.Word.A.Day-provides a new word a day appropriate for students 11-17.
Education 4 Kids Vocabulary Drills-vocabulary drills.
E.L. Easton Vocabulary-a variety of dictionaries and quizzes.
FakeOut-vocabulary drill where you guess the meaning or create your own FakeOut.
Sentence Quest: Using Parts of Speech to Write Descriptive Sentences (K-2)-a lesson to help students in sentence creation.
SuperKids Vocabulary Builders-vocabulary resources.
Vocabulary University-vocabulary exercises for students 8-18 to build their vocabulary.
WordCentral.com-a dictionary, daily buzz word, and more.
Words@Random-provides new words, answers to questions and word games.
Word Game of the Day-provides a variety of word games for students 8-18.

Comprehension and Fluency
CNN Interactive Reading Source- provides current and archived articles for students to read and then answer comprehension, vocabulary and sequence questions.
Critical Literacy: Point of View (6-8)-students examine Internet sites to determine an Author's purpose and point of view.
Developing a Definition of Reading through Analysis in the Middle School (6-8)-students examine Internet sites to develop an understanding of what it takes to become a reader.
Fluency Through Fables-this site has several fables to help students improve comprehension. There are also online quizzes for the students.
New York Times Learning Network - provides students in grades 3-12 with news summaries, daily news quiz, word of the day, test prep question of the day, daily lesson plans, news snapshot, and more.
Online Reading Skills - provides mini-stories with cloze exercises, speed reading exercises, and other reading passages with activities.
Poetry: A Feast to Form Fluent Readers (3-5)-this site uses Internet sites of poetry to help with their fluency.
Power Proofreading - students select their grade level and must proofread selections of text and correct the errors.
Reading Comprehension Strategies Toolbox-provides reading samples and comprehension quesitons.
Reading Exercises - provides reading passages and the students must answer inference, main idea, vocabulary, and detail questions.
Scholastic Explorers - students read and interact with information about explorers such as Native American cultures, ocean life, endangered environments, and more.
Scholastic Reading and Language Arts Content Index - provides a variety of lesson plans, reproducibles, and activities in reading and language arts.
Shaquille O'neil: Using a Basketball Star to Motivate Readers - provides a read a-loud of Shaq and the BeanStalk and interactive activities for students to participate in.

Grammar and Spelling
Grammar Blaster-Grammar practice for grades 2-5.
Grammar Gorillas - an activity to select the correct part of speech.
Interactive Spelling: Adding "ed" - a tutorial on when to add "ed" to words.
Interesting Things for ESL Students -  provides word games, puzzles, quizzes, slang, proverbs and much more.
Language Arts Activities - a variety of spelling, reading and grammar activities.
Lessons tied to MUSD Writing Standards for 5th Grade - provides a variety of writing lessons and activities tied to the standards.
Measuring Time - a cloze activity for children.
Paint by Idioms - students practice selecting the correct idiom.
Prefix Skills - provides matching, concentration, word search and flash cards on prefixes.
Rooting Out Words -students must select the appropriate root of the words.
Wild World of Words - provides activities on spelling, decoding, word building and word meanings.
Wonder Spell - the program presents a picture and students click on the letters of the alphabet to spell the simple words.

General Activities
Dositey.com-Language Arts activities for all grades.
Houghton Mifflin Education Place
Language Arts Activities
Effective Use of Internet Technology
Wild World of Words Challenges
Mrs. ABC
Sentence Quest: Using Parts of Speech to Write Descriptive Sentences (K-2)-a lesson to help students in sentence creation.